Everyone keeps saying the western's dead, but it's not.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Sci-fi films are as dead as westerns.
People are always asking me why they don't make Westerns like they used to.
The period western doesn't have a lot to say to most people today.
The West has always been the epicentre of possibility. One of the ways we forge against mortality is to head west. It's to do with catching the sun before it slips behind the horizon.
You don't get to make Westerns every day.
I am not a fan of westerns particularly.
When I was growing up in the '60s I would have thought that westerns would last forever.
The western is the simplest form of drama - a gun, death.
With Westerns you have the landscape is important, and it's empty, and only you populate it. When you populate it, you can tell any kind story that Shakespeare told, you can tell in a Western.
I haven't read hardly any Westerns, to tell you the truth.